Hi all, I just performed a new Gentoo install, and am having a couple of issues regarding authentication. I think that the problem is something to do with PAM/Shadow. (No ... it's not the blocking issue between pam-login and shadow).
I run a single user system with just users for myself (username: kris) and root. I cannot su into the root account from my personal account. I have added kris to the group wheel using the `gpasswd -a kris wheel', but still cannot su. I verified that kris is in the wheel group by logging in and trying the `groups' command. Then, I tried editing `/etc/pam.d/su' and commenting out the line `auth required pam_wheel.so use_uid', as the comment above it states that doing so will allow users who are not in the wheel group to su. Still, no joy. Other comments in that file state that you may give explicit rights to specific users by creating the file `/etc/security/suauth.allow' with each allowed user on their own line. Still, no joy. On a (possibly) related note: while trying to switch from a graphical login to a virtual console to work on some of these problems, I found that the usual Ctrl-Alt-F* incantation did not work. The only way to switch to a virtual console was to right click on the desktop and go through the `Switch User' menu function on KDE. Further, when switching back to the graphical login from the console, I found that the screensaver had come on and had locked the desktop (though this was disabled within KDE's configuration). The big problem, however, came when I could not unlock the screensaver with my password. Also, kris' attempts to change his passwd are met with the error: `Authentication token manipulation error'. Thanks in advance for all of your help. System information is appended below. Kris Kerwin ========== System Info ========== I run `pam-0.78-r3 USE=berkdb' and `shadow-4.0.15-r2 USE=nls pam' on the following system: Portage 2.1-r1 (!/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-suspend2-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-suspend2-r8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache cvs distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer notitles sandbox sfperms strict userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"; MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp/build" PORTDIR="/usr/target/ports" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi adns aim alsa apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid asm audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cddb cdparanoia cli crypt cups dga divx4linux dlloader doc dri dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd ethereal f77 font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 heimdal icq imlib ipv6 isdnlog jabber java javascript jikes joystick jpeg kde kerberos koffice-plugin libg++ libwww mad mikmod mime motif mp3 mpeg mplayer msn ncurses nls nocd nptl offensive ogg opengl oscar oss pam pcre pda pdflib perl png posix pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline real reflection sdl session smime spell spl sse ssl svg tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb videos vorbis wmf xine xinerama xml xmms xorg xscreensaver xv yahoo zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_radeon" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
